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The deteriorating log cabin at the “Little House on the Prairie” site in Kansas is expected to soon get a makeover. The current cabin was re-created and built near Independence in 1977, during the peak of popularity for a television series based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books centered on her childhood.

Amelia Earhart had been missing nearly 10 years before Jeannine Wyatt was even born. Still, separated by time and space, Wyatt always felt a connection with her hometown heroine, a fellow tomboy who played along the same bluff high above the Missouri River some 50 years before.
Across generations, two girls sat not far from each other, dreaming their dreams. That’s how Wyatt, now 70, reminisces about her childhood in Atchison, where stories of the famous aviator, born there in 1897, loomed large.

The bill allows the Fort Scott National Historic Site to accept the donation of a Civil War-era blockhouse known as Lunette Blair, which stands next to the fort but has never officially been part of the park.

Over the river and through the wood, to Grandmother’s house — and the site of a long-lost Native American city — Adam Ziegler went. What the Lawrence teen found while visiting his grandma near Arkansas City would prove what academics had suspected for years but never confirmed: the location of Etzanoa, a pre-Columbian civilization at the confluence of the Walnut and Arkansas rivers.

Documentary film set to air on television this month

In decades of coaching basketball — at the high school, college, pro and international levels, including championship wins — John McLendon never got a technical foul.
The approximately 5-foot-6-inch African-American gentleman known to some as “Little Coach” was softspoken, deeply humble and never cursed. But that demeanor belied a grit that drove McLendon to be one of the most groundbreaking coaches in basketball history.

Gale Sayers, a star running back for the University of Kansas in the early 1960s who later played five seasons with the Chicago Bears, was honored Friday night as one of two 2017 Kansans of the Year at the Native Sons and Daughters banquet in Topeka. Also honored was retired Air Force Gen. James D. Latham, a graduate of Kansas State University.

In the early years of the Vietnam War, wives of men missing in action or taken as prisoners were terrified to speak out about their husbands’ plights, according to historian Heath Hardage Lee.
“The military ordered the POW/MIA wives and their families to adhere to a ‘Keep Quiet’ policy,” Lee said. “At the start of the Vietnam conflict, the wives were informed that if they talked about their husbands' capture, it might negatively affect the men’s treatment in prison and hurt their chances of returning home.”
A grassroots organization that helped turn that around is the focus of an upcoming exhibition being created by the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas.

Upcoming events at the University of Kansas Dole Institute of Politics will include Presidential Lecture Series installments on United States involvement in World War I, plus Fort Leavenworth Series events exploring Asian military history.

Civil War re-enactors with the 3rd Kansas, Battery B, light artillery unit, including two men from Lawrence, participated in the Wilson's Creek 150th Anniversary Reenactment on August 12-14 near Springfield, Mo. William Quantrill fought with the Missouri Guard in the battle, August 10, 1861, considered the second major battle of the Civil War. Two years later, Quantrill attacked Lawrence.

Paul Bahnmaier, president of the Lecompton Historical Society, speaks Tuesday, May 3, 2011, in the Capitol after the Kansas House approved a resolution recognizing Lecompton for its role in state and national history.